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The Walking Dead: A New Frontier

PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2016

Should you play it?

After society was ripped apart by undead hands, pockets of civilization emerge from the chaos. But at what cost? Can the living be trusted on this new frontier?

What works

  • Engaging emotional storytelling
  • Meaningful player choices
  • Strong character development
  • Improved graphics and presentation
  • Replayability through branching paths

Things to keep in mind

  • Some choices have limited impact
  • Shorter length than previous seasons
  • Clementine sidelined as main character
  • Technical issues and bugs reported
  • Less gameplay interactivity, more qte

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Walking Dead: The Final Season

  • The Walking Dead: Season Two

  • The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series

  • Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

  • Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition

  • Dragon Age™ Inquisition

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like The Walking Dead: A New Frontier but with less leadership over others

  • The Walking Dead: Michonne - A Telltale Miniseries

  • Beyond: Two Souls

  • Lorelai

  • Batman - The Telltale Series

  • Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

  • Life is Strange: Reunion

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • The Walking Dead: The Final Season

  • The Walking Dead: Season Two

  • The Walking Dead

  • The Wolf Among Us

  • Tales from the Borderlands

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Competition.

Last update: 03/08/2026